I read something interesting in the current issue of Scale Rails. It was two page article describing something that either has afflicted all of us at one time or from which we are currently suffering: Procrastination.

In the wake of the Giant Claw Incident of last week, I was finally able to get my imaginery n-scale work crews back to work on the layout. They had been terrorized by a black bird which had somehow found its way into my basement coming down the chimney flue and luckily didn't end up in the flue leading to the boiler.

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s Hollywood made alot of horror movies. As kid I remember going to the movies on Friday afternoon's to see some of those gems (not) with my firends after school. It was a good way for our mother's to get us out of the house while they got ready for the Sabbath and it was cheap at 25 cents too. When I got older they showed many of these *gems* on TV as well and I watched them while doing homework or building one of what must have been thousands of models.

I recently ordered Howard Zane's My Life with Model Trains. If you haven't read it you are missing out on something special because he offers another approach to the hobby and we can always use something like that. Besides, being a character, Howard tells the story of his model railroad (all 2,850 feet of it at the present time) amd how it came to be. He does it with great photos and lots of text.

No, I am not thinking of that old Glen Campbell song from the 1970s.

Today I finally got the spare cash to order the wood for what will become the carfloats for the Hudson and Hartford. I ordered them from Micro Mark so you can tell them one of your readers bought something from them.

The holidays are over and so is tax season so it's time to get off my bottom and start working on my layout. But first there are some things that have to be moved off of it.

It's April and it's the spring holiday season. Of course it's starting out as a rainy holiday season and that is never fun. Of course going out doors isn't exactly fun when it rains but I'd rather have rain than snow.

It's 7:20 AM on Tuesday March 10, 2009 and I'm here in my office at school waiting to go to my 8 AM class and I'm thinking about car float design. I've come up with a basic plan for a car float based on a 328 foot deck barge that should be able to hold 15 50 foot boxcars and possibly more. 328 feet of length should be able to hold 17 in my way of thinking which is what the prototype barges held.

Time for another update on the Hudson and Hartford.

On January 29, 2009 I tooka part time college teaching job. I teach a beginning accounting course at a college in Staten Island, New York and I find it stimulating. Teaching this isn't new to me since I did it full time for 8 years and a college in New Jersey and another in Jamaica, New York. I've also taught as an adjunct for many years as well with last time being in the Fall of 2007.

A few weeks ago I complaned about not being able to stay signed on to this site when using Firefox. I would be able to sign on, read a new posting but when I went to hit the Recent Posts choice on the right side of the screen I would find I was signed off. I know a lot of the folks here tried to help me and even Joe F. tried to help. No one could really figure it out even though I had no problems accessing the site with the same computer running Internet Explorer or using Firefox on two other computers.